Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 837 Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The exploration spacecraft team carrying out the exploration mission ahead did not pay much attention to the probe that had already flown to the outer edge of the star system, but instead flew directly past it and headed straight into the interior of the galaxy.

Since humans did not give any special instructions to the member civilizations of the Star Alliance responsible for the exploration mission, they just did things according to their own temperament.

The Chiyan civilization is still responsible for the exploration mission.

Among the several civilizations in the Star Alliance, perhaps because they cannot compete with other civilizations in other aspects, the Red Flame Civilization is the most willing to accept military-related tasks such as detection or rearguard operations. The main reason is that their warriors are really more professional than those of other civilizations, and humans are also happy to use them.

For example, this time, the exploration mission was supposed to be carried out by the Nair civilization, but it was snatched away by them.

The goal of the advance exploration team is very clear. After passing the orbit of the outermost planet, the exploration spacecraft will disperse directly and rush towards the planets in the inner orbit of the star system, looking like they are not afraid of any danger.

not bad.

According to the cosmic environment where liquid water exists, the exploration team's main exploration destination this time is the gas planet located in the habitable zone. Although the possibility of life existing on gas planets is not high, gas planets generally have many satellites, and perhaps the unknown low-level civilization is on a satellite.

Because from the perspective of the entire galaxy's overall environment, that position is indeed quite good - the outermost gas planets block most of the asteroids, meteorites, etc. for them, and even if there are some that slip through the net, they will be sucked away by the gravity of the gas planets in the second orbit.

If life does exist on a satellite, then that planet would be less likely to be threatened by meteorite impacts.

Probes using humanity's third-generation warp technology quickly reached various planets and quickly delivered first-hand information to humans.

This time, human scientists guessed it almost right. The exploration spacecraft did discover a planet with life. It was located in the habitable zone of the gas planet and was a satellite of the gas planet.

The form of intelligent life is still uncertain, but it is certain that there is a planet with life because it is too obvious. As soon as the exploration spacecraft arrived near the satellite orbit, it found that the place was full of noisy noises.

Well, it's not really noise, but a sky full of electromagnetic waves. It's really a noisy world.

If the exploration spacecraft flew directly into the interior of the planet at this time, perhaps this unknown low-level civilization would have the so-called third-level contact.

The third kind of contact originally refers to direct contact between humans and aliens, such as seeing UFOs clearly, and especially seeing the advanced humanoid life on board.

Related to it are the first, second, fourth and fifth kinds of contact, which respectively mean seeing a UFO up close, touching something on the UFO with a part of the human body or witnessing traces left behind, communicating with aliens through telepathy, and contacting alien civilizations with friendly messages.

Of course, all the contacts were when humans were in a low-level civilization and aliens were visiting the earth as a high-level civilization. Now the situation is reversed. It is not that humans have discovered alien UFOs, but that aliens have discovered human spaceships.

For the aliens here, the flying vehicles they see now are UFOs, also known as unidentified flying objects.

This time, humans are the masters behind the UFO. The people of the Red Flame Civilization, in line with the purpose of serious exploration, actually drove the exploration spacecraft into the planet's atmosphere.

The advance exploration spacecraft discovered that this planet not only has "satellites of artificial satellites" in various orbits, but also a space station, and below the space station is the atmosphere.

Yes, the atmosphere.

This planet has an atmosphere, and the concentration is not low. After a simple material analysis, it was found that its atmospheric concentration is slightly higher than that of the Earth, but not much.

However, the composition of the atmosphere is very different from that of the Earth, and normal humans certainly cannot breathe on it. Because its atmospheric composition mainly includes methane, chlorine, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, etc., as well as a very small amount of hydrogen chloride. Although oxygen accounts for 23%, it has many gases that are toxic to humans.

It's a bit regrettable, but humans don't care. Anyway, humans have no interest in cats living on a planet now. Even if this planet is the twin brother of the Earth, humans will not have the desire to settle down.

It's not that humans don't want to, it's just that they have lived in the universe for too long, accumulated a lot of cosmic knowledge, and are used to the life of a wandering civilization. Most importantly, humans have determined the goal of long-distance voyages. Since they want to travel long distances, it is impossible to stay on one planet to survive and develop.

Instead of doing that, it is better to prepare now. After all, the future will inevitably involve a long voyage.

So for humans, this planet is just a planet with a slightly pungent smell. Of course, there are many animals and plants that can be studied. It is a precious life planet with a complete biosphere system.

There are several exploration spacecraft that have come to this planet. One of them, after entering the atmosphere, discovered that it was raining in the world under the clouds. It was a rain containing hydrochloric acid. This is because the atmosphere of this planet contains a lot of methane, ammonia and chlorine, which will combine with water vapor to form hydrochloric acid rain. However, for the life on this planet, it is rain that nourishes all things.

It is conceivable that in order to adapt to this environment, local creatures would most likely evolve hard shells to protect their respiratory organs.

The gas planet this planet orbits is about twice the mass of Saturn, but it does not have beautiful Saturn rings. There are also seven satellites of different sizes orbiting this huge gas planet, so if you look up at the starry sky from inside this planet, you will see two or three moons hanging high in the sky. Of course, the size and brightness of the moons are different depending on the distance.

This planet is one of these satellites.

As for the sun, well, it should be called "sun". Intelligent life living on this planet will see that there are two suns in the sky, one is the real main sequence star, and the other is a gas planet nearby.

Although the gaseous planet only reflects the light of the main sequence stars, due to the close distance, two "suns" can be seen on this planet during most of the daytime. The reason why it is said is that sometimes due to the changes in the orbits of the stars, the sun rises and sets at the same time.

This situation is extremely rare, at least humans have never visited such a planet since they set foot on the starry sky.

For this world, the brightness and color of the two "suns" in the sky are not the same. One is warmer, and the other is more like an enlarged version of the moon in their world.

(End of this chapter)